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Gil Granot-Mayer Will Replace Amir Naiberg as CEO of Yeda

Gil Granot-Mayer Will Replace Amir Naiberg as CEO of Yeda

Naiberg to head technology transfer at UCLA

After 15 years at Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science, five in the role of General Counsel and a decade as CEO, Amir Naiberg has accepted an offer from the University of California, Los Angeles to serve as Associate Vice Chancellor for the Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Sponsored Research. Naiberg will also be president and CEO of the UCLA’s technology transfer company. Gil Granot-Mayer, who is presently serving as Yeda’s Deputy CEO and General Counsel, will take over as CEO.

"Amir's term at Yeda has been full of achievements and success," says Vice President for Technology Transfer at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Chairman of Yeda, Prof. Mordechai (Mudi) Sheves. "These include the establishment of many companies based on technologies born in the laboratories of the Institute’s scientists, fostering and strengthening relationships with the private sector, enforcement of the Institute’s intellectual property rights worldwide and fostering the esteem of Yeda's name and that of the Weizmann Institute of Science."

"For example, two new drugs based on research conducted at the Institute have recently come to market. Amir made a distinctive contribution at different stages of the technology transfer from academia to industry, and to their development. He left his mark on Yeda and on the way it operates in the field of technology transfer.”

Gil Granot-Mayer has served as Yeda’s General Counsel for a decade; for the past three years he has concurrently served as Deputy CEO of the company. Prof. Sheves: "Gil has made a great contribution to Yeda in his prudent management of the company's legal affairs, while maintaining fair relations with all the entities he's worked with. As Deputy CEO of Yeda, Gil has taken part in all the company's major proceedings in recent years, and he has extensive experience in transferring technology from the laboratories of scientists to the private sector. I am confident Gil will promote Yeda and lead it to new heights."

"We are grateful to Amir for his contribution and wish him great success in his new and challenging role at UCLA. We wish Gil all the success in the world in his new role, leading Yeda into the future."